Following my show on September 25th with Dudu Sarr, one of the three compilers of a juke box representing the best music from the Africa over the past ten years, listener Ross McCarthy wrote in to ask if it would be possible to see the list of 60 tracks chosen so far.

Dudu has given permission for us to reproduce it, so here is the entire document, starting with introduction, then the records, and finally the details of the three compilers.

We look forward to your suggestions for the other forty recordings to fill the juke box to its capacity of 100

Music is arguably the most conspicuous, dynamic and vibrant of all cultural expressions of the African continent. The contribution of the Africa to the creation of some of the worldâ€™s greatest popular musics is well known. Africans introduced melodies, rhythms, musical instruments, aesthetics, and a multi-dimensional approach to music-making to the New World, a legacy clearly visible in such genres as jazz, rock and roll, son, salsa, samba, calypso, and funk.

Meanwhile, on the African continent itself, new forms of music have been and are constantly being invented in response to new social, economic and political contexts, alongside (and interconnecting with) the continuation of many older musical traditions associated with ritual and life cycle events.

While contemporary visual arts in Africa have been slower to gain acceptance as a valid art form in the international market, African contemporary music has virtually dominated the world music scene for the last two decades. Several African artists, such as Youssou Nâ€™Dour and Mory Kante, have achieved crossover hits in the European charts, and instruments like the kora (harp) and jembe (drum) have been used in diverse styles of music far beyond their original setting.

While some parts of the continent have produced relatively little outside the local context, others have developed a powerful music industry both at home and abroad, and keep up with the latest developments in global sounds. This has stimulated the growth of new urban sounds and young emerging talent who re-interpret global styles such as hip-hop in their own languages and idioms.

Oh no ! There are at least 25 of the 60 I haven't heard. Unless their going to be on the CD of the exhibition I'm going to need a second ruddy mortgage.

Most of my suggestions seem to belong to the last year of the last century, but a lot of my original choices have been snaffled up already.

Carnival de Sao Vicente(Body & Soul Vocal Mix)- Cesaria Evora
.....surely the best Evora remix ever & not on the Club Sodade ! Such a toe tapper. I have it from the 'The Shrine, Afro Digital' but there is a Joe Clausell remix CD around somewhere from which it originated. (1999).

Makoti-Arthur CD Umpostoli (1999)
Such a thumping bit of Kwaito & Arthur seems to run the scene.

Ya Rayah(Polar Remix)-Dahmane El Harachi CD Arabesque(1999).
Ok Ok this is probably cheating, the song came out(I think) in 1973. This is the remix done in 1999. How damned clever is the person that realised that a sample of a mexican trumpet would sit so comfortably alongside an Algerian sound.

Gauloulha Dji- Khaled CD Kenza (1999)
An African jukebox without Khaled ? Kenza is the most recent CD I own and this is such great jumping about stuff. Sahra(1996) would have also fitted in to the 10 year rule. Loads of alternative choices off this one.

Kafo Fite-The African Divas 12" single(1999).
Fredric Galliano proving he wasn't only a good remixer but could work with talented singers to create something new.

Can 2002-Neba Solo CD(?) cassette Can 2002 (2001).
My attempt to upsurp the chosen track by Neba Solo in the 60. Don't understand football. Patrick Viera.... French existentialist ??????. But I have adored African football related songs ever since The Real Sounds-Tornados vs Dynamos(3-3). Seeing as football seems to be at least as much a passion in Africa as it is here I reckon the jukebox can't do without this or Oumou Sangares Be Ka Wili which I thinks about football on the basis that shes holding a football on the cover & theres the roar of a crowd on the song.

This is my first post - have been a listener for years and my music collection has been heavily influenced by Charlies Saturday night playlists. On the whole my musical preferences tend towards something that's a little more funky, so my suggestions for the African Juke Box might not be to all your tastes:

It's a Man's Man's, Man's World. Sekouba Bambino from the album Sinikin

Look Around. Femi Kuti from the album Shoki Shoki

Several people have mentioned the absence of Issa Bagayogo. His latest album Tassoumakan is magnificent and I've been playing it to death for the last two weeks, but on this occasion I'm suggesting a track that always put a smile on my face and a skip in my step as, tuned into my iPod, I walked over the River Thames at Waterloo to and from work:

Hey guys ,
Many thanks for your suggestions. Keep them coming..
Issa definitely was on our list but somehow did not make it to Germany.. Mystery.But possibly on the compilation which will accompany the exhibition.
But just one or two corrections.. 1) It is not a top 60. It is just our 60 selected tracks . The French say ...Les gouts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas !!!!! This is the result of endless arguments between 3 curators starting from a thousand possibilities for only 60 tracks..
The minute you start ranking them ... dangerous grounds..All of the tracks suggested are great tracks which reminds me that I need to get a new loan to go on a music shopping spree.. So many that I do not have..
2) Sadly it will not be 100 tracks as annouced on the program but 60 as it is now. Did not manage to convince them.

So late with this - but came upon the link when searching for the song about King Harry getting his Hampton court - if you are still wondering about the slang - it is Hamton Wick - to rhyme with Prick - which then makes sense in the song